Devourment
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| Devourment | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Dallas, Texas, |
| Country | United States |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Genres | Brutal Death Metal |
| Labels | Self-released |
| Members | Mike Majewski Ruben Rosas Eric Park Chris Andrews |
Devourment is a brutal death metal band formed in 1995 in Dallas, Texas.
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[edit] About
[edit] Biography
Devourment was formed in 1995 after demise of local Dallas based death metal band Necrocide by drummer Brad Fincher and guitarist Braxton Henry (both from Necrocide) along with vocalist Wayne Knupp.
Wayne decided to move back to his hometown of Chicago, Brad moved to San Antonio, TX to get his education. Months later both Wayne and Brad moved back to the Dallas area and decided to continue the life of the band. However, Braxton Henry had in the meantime already formed a band known as DeadIndustry. Luckily Wayne knew Brian "Brain" Wynn who he used to actually play with a few years before. So after finally contacting him, Brain was introduced to the band whom musically, he clicked with instantaneously.
Soon the trio put out a 2-song promo, which featured Shroud Of Encryption and Festering Vomitous Mass. Several months later with the additions of then guitarist of Sintury Kevin Clark, and underground artist Mike Majewski, Devourment recorded one more song, Choking On Bile, which would be added to the 2-song promo resulting in the 1997 demo released by Corpsegristle Records that gained such a tremendous fan base. The demo would be entitled Impaled.
Wayne Knupp decided to leave the band due to some internal problems leading up to and during the trip to New York. Brain phoned Wayne and fired him from the band as soon as Wayne got back from being left in New York by the band. The band would have a hard time finding a new vocalist, somebody who could most importantly, compare with Wayne's brutal vocal. Their choice would ultimately be guitarist/vocalist of local band Detrimental, Ruben Rosas. Ruben of course was heavily influenced by Wayne in the first place.
The band then landed a record deal in 1999 with United Guttural Records and released the debut CD Molesting The Decapitated. After playing show with such bands as Macabre, Deaden, Cephalic Carnage and Fleshgrind, Ruben was arrested as a fugitive from justice. Ironically this was also the same night that Molesting The Decapitated was released. Not knowing what to do, the band decided it was time to part ways. But due to the overwhelming response from fans worldwide, Devourment reformed minus Brain and adding once again Braxton Henry on guitars and none other than Wayne Knupp on Vocals.
Together they would record one new song entitled Babykiller, which, would be released along with the 3 songs from the "Impaled" demo and the 8 songs from "Molesting The Decapitated". The release was called 1.3.8. No shows would ever be played though and eventually the band faded out.
Ruben was eventually released from his 2 1/2 year incarceration and tried to rejuvenate the band. He eventually recruited various new musicians, played a few shows, but things never really materialized.
A few years went by and Ruben, and original bassist Mike Majewski talked again about reforming the band and finally recording the band's long awaited second album. Eric Park filled in the position of drummer and the band went into the studio of August 2005 and recorded Butcher The Weak. The album was released in November of 2005 and went on to gain critical success, as well as praise from Devourment fans all over the world. Ruben played the bass tracks on the record, but shortly after, Chris Andrews joined in on bass to complete Devourment lineup to date. Despite the success of Butcher the Weak, the band was never totally satisfied with the production of the album and felt it didn’t fully deliver the potential of the new songs. Being the perfectionist’s that they are, the band came to a decision to re-record the entire album from the ground up with their original guitarist and engineer, Braxton Henry. This time around, the band was 110% satisfied with the recording and believed it was now the true and worthy follow-up to Molesting the Decapitated. After the recording was complete, the band felt it would be necessary to get the support of a record label so they could get the distribution they needed. The band struck a 2 album deal with Minnesota based Brutal Bands Records. Butcher the Weak was re-released by Brutal Bands in the Summer of 2006 and was hailed by fans and critics and the true sophomore release by Devourment. Devourment continues to stay very active. The band recorded 2 brand new songs for a 4 band split compilation, played some well known major metal fests in the USA with great success and overwhelming praise and response for their insanely powerful live performance, and continues planning shows and tours.
[edit] Music
Devourment can be considered as one of the pioneers in slam death metal. Its music can be briefly characterised by not great speed (but breaked with short and fast blast beats) of drums, very deep and harsh guitar sound and low guttural vocals. Obviously, as line-up changed music also experienced some alteration. General speed on Butcher The Weak is increased, guitar sound is even harsher.
[edit] Lyrics
Devourment distinguishes from other bands by comparably big amount of texts, concerning different aspects of coprophagy, gerontophilia, necrophilia, fetishism, activity of serial killers and other forms of perversion.
[edit] Symbol
Coiled worm on disc of Molesting The Decapitated was drawn by Mike Majewski and is "gutturaled" about in track Molesting The Decapitated. From the words of Ruben Rosas it is "kind of a mutant maggot that will consume the earth". Later it was redrawn by Studio Sho and figures on disc of Butcher The Weak.
[edit] Album covers
Cover artwork for Butcher The Weak was drawn by Mike Majewski.
[edit] Similar bands
Bands performing in similar style are Prophecy and Artery Eruption. It is also belived that they got their style from a brutal death/slam metal band Repudilation.
[edit] Interviews
All interviews categorized by date can be seen at The Official Devourment Fan Database.
[edit] Members
- Mike Majewski - Vocals
- Ruben Rosas - Guitars
- Eric Park - Drums
- Chris Andrews - Bass
[edit] Former members
- Wayne Knupp - vocals/guitar
- Brad Fincher - drums
- Brian "Brain" Wynn - guitar
- Gabriel Ayala - guitar
- Kevin Clark - guitar
- Chris Hutto - guitar
- Braxton Henry - guitar
- Christian Gonzalez - bass
- Robert Moore - guitar
- Jeremy Peterson - drums
[edit] Discography
- Impaled (Demo, 1997)
- Promo '99
- Molesting The Decapitated (1999 full length)
- 1.3.8.(2000)
- Kill That Fucking Bitch (2002 demo)
- United States Of Goregrind (2005, Split)
- Official DVD (2005)
- Butcher The Weak (2005 full length)
- 2006 Promo (2006)
- Split Promo (2006)
